Week 4 (8 Feb) – Symposium – Egypt in the First World War, 1911-1924. Speakers & discussants:
Aaron Jakes (The New School): The Balance Sheet of Empire
Christopher Rose (University of Texas at Austin): Famine, Disease, and Death in Egypt, 1914-1919
Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford): Reading Women in the Great War
Hussein Omar (Pembroke Collge, Oxford): Conscript and Sacrifice: The Political Theology of the 19191 Revolution
Khaled Fahmy (King’s College, University of Cambridge): Remembering the War that never was2:30pm, Harold Lee Room (Pembroke College, Oxford). Free and open to all. Non-Oxford attendees please RSVP to organiser Dr. Hussein Omar at hussein.omar@history.ox.ac.uk. Please note different start time and location.Week 5 (15 Feb) – No seminar.

Week 6 (22 Feb) – Dr. Anna Maguire (King’s College London), Travelling to War: Journey, Distance and Encounter in the Experiences of Troops from New Zealand, South Africa and the West IndiesPLEASE NOTE: THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE UCU STRIKE.

Week 7 (1 Mar) – Symposium – Constructing Messages of War. Joint event with Oxford Brookes, co-organised by Dr. Jane Potter and Dr. Susannah Wright. Exploring how messages about war are conveyed through print culture, material culture, and teaching.Speakers:
Hanna Smyth (Oxford): Messages and the Missing: Battlefield commemoration and constructions of identity
Vincent Trott (Oxford Brookes / Open University): The Divided Marketplace: Publishers and the First World War, 1919-1930
Sarah Wearne (author): Messages from the Grave
Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes): Internationalist messages of war: The League of Nations Union in the interwar years2-5pm, The Green Room, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford Brookes University. Free, but registration necessary for all attendees. Please contact glgwevents@history.ox.ac.uk to register. Please note different start time and location.
Download poster: Constructing Messages of War posterPLEASE NOTE: THIS SYMPOSIUM HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS.

11 October, 17:30-19:30 – Event – Apparitions at Fatima, 1917-2017: A Century after the “Miracle of the Sun”. The Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College
Further information here.

Week 1 (12 Oct) – Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin & University of Oxford), How many beginnings? Entering the Great War, 1904-1917 – This paper is presented as part of Professor Horne’s Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of OxfordColin Matthew Room, History Faculty

Week 2 (19 Oct) – Dr David Monger (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Know your enemy: British perspectives of German First World War propagandaColin Matthew Room, History Faculty

Week 3 (26 Oct) – Dr David Monger (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), We cannot keep silent’: the international humanitarian network behind the British Parliamentary Report on the Armenian GenocideColin Matthew Room, History Faculty

Week 4 (2 Nov) – Dr Emily Robertson (Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales), Merciless Humanitarians: Atrocity propaganda, liberalism and the First World War in Great Britain and AustraliaColin Matthew Room, History Faculty (NB room only available from 16.00)

Week 5 (9 Nov) – Dr Emma Login (Historic England), The First World War and the Avengers of 1870: memorialising a global conflict in eastern FranceColin Matthew Room, History Faculty

15 November, from 17.15 – joint session with the History of War seminar series, Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin & University of Oxford), Empires and Occupations: The Global Dynamics of the Illiberal Wartime State during the First World War – This paper is presented as part of Professor Horne’s Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford. Wharton Room, All Souls College
History of War seminar series poster: HoW seminars 1718 MT

28 November, 16.00-17.30 – Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin & University of Oxford), War as Revolution, 1914-1923, valedictory lecture as finale of Professor Horne’s Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford. Lecture Theatre, History Faculty, followed by drinks reception from 17.30-19.00, Joan Thirsk Common Room, History Faculty. The drinks reception will be combined with a book launch for Professor Toby Garfitt‘s edited volume Writing the Great War. He will give a short talk about the book at 18.00. The drinks reception is generously supported by the Faculty of History and Peter Lang Limited.